Expand/Collapse Markers

Expand and collapse markers of specified types to allow
editing directly in the FrameMaker document.

Select
the marker type then choose the Expand or Collapse button.

When markers are expanded in an unstructured document, the original
marker is deleted and the text of the marker is inserted and formatted
with an overline and underline, and is blue in color. For structured
documents, the marker element remains but is wrapped in a new element
named "_PT-<marker-name>". Each marker entry
is delimited with "[+]" symbols at its beginning and end. You can
modify the text between the "[+]" symbols as needed. When you are
done editing, use the Collapse command to regenerate the markers with
the new text.

Important: Working with expanded markers can be tricky.
Please keep the following items in mind:

Be careful not to
apply different formatting or remove the formatting between the "[+]"
delimiters.

If you modify the text of a marker while it is expanded so that
there are more than 255 characters, the Collapse command will report
an error when it is run.

Regenerating a book or updating cross-references while markers
are expanded can have surprising results. When markers are expanded,
they are treated as regular text, so any process that reads the
text of a heading (such as updating a book or cross-references)
will also read the expanded marker text. If this happens, just collapse
the markers and regenerate the book.

To expand markers in structured documents

If
you are working in a structured document (with structured markers),
when expanded the original marker element and the inserted text
are wrapped in a special element named "_PT-<marker-name>". While
the markers are expanded, do not edit the text of the marker element,
it will be replaced when the markers are collapsed.

Note: Unless
you add the "_PT-<marker-name>" elements to your data model (EDD
and DTD) the document will be invalid while the markers are expanded.
This is not a problem, just something to be aware of.

To customize the display of expanded marker text

The formatting
of the expanded marker text is controlled by named objects that
are added to the document when the Expand command is issued. If
these named objects already exist, the existing definitions are
used. To control the formatting of the expanded text, you should
define these objects prior to using the command.

When
marker text is expanded, it is formatted with a character style
named "~PT-<marker-name>", where <marker-name>
is the name of the marker type being expanded. For example, if you
expand Index markers, the character style that is applied is named
"~PT-Index".

The "[+]" marker delimiters are defined by a FrameMaker variable
named "~PT-MarkerExpand". This variable definition uses a character
style named "~PT:BOLD".

If an error occurs when collapsing the marker text, that text
is tagged with the character style named "~PT:ERROR".

If you expand the text of a structured marker, the original
marker element and the expanded text are wrapped in a new element
named "_PT-<marker-name>". The text wrapped
by this new element is formatted with the character style named "~PT-<marker-name>".

Error messages

N expanded
markers are missing their beginning or ending variables.

This
can happen when you make edits to an expanded marker and you change
or remove the character formatting in the marker text. The Collapse
command will flag the problem text with the "~PT:ERROR" character
style (bold red). Just retag the text and the beginning/ending symbols
("[+]") with the proper character style for the associated marker
(for example, "~PT-Index" for an Index marker), then run the Collapse
command again.